In combating the coronavirus pandemic, Trump's America-first policies and testy relations with other leaders contributed to a lack of coordination.
These are some of the unusual new scenes across the Southland in the age of the coronavirus outbreak.“What we’re seeing is the biggest global crisis of our lifetimes with truly no global response,” said Ian Bremmer, president of the international risk-assessment Eurasia Group. “Trump’s orientation — his unilateralism, his transactionalism and his challenging personal relations with so many of our key allies — have made worse what was going to be a severe structural crisis irrespective of Trump.
“The administration has stuck to its worst penchants not to follow expert advice, treated this as a zero-sum game and missed opportunities to at least look like it was getting out there in front and say: ‘We’ll be there to help as much as we can,’” said Daniel Nexon, a Georgetown University government professor and author of “Exit From Hegemony,” adding that’s what every president since Ronald Reagan has done in times of disaster.
White House officials insisted Trump has maintained contact with other world leaders in dealing with the crisis, though little documentation of such conversations has been released.Trump supporters say his approach is working. “Kudos for the president,” said James Carafano, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Carafano and others said Trump has dealt with other world leaders behind the scenes.
The WHO “got it wrong,” Trump said. “I think they have to get their priorities right, and their priorities are that everybody has to be treated properly — every country. And it doesn’t seem that way, does it? ... It’s very unfair.”He accused the organization and its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of being “China-centric” and overly deferential to Beijing, allowing it to hide the extent of the outbreak in its early weeks.
Gordon Brown, prime minister of Britain during the 2008 recession, said there’s been of “too much America first, India first, China first,” and that countries have to acknowledge they are interdependent “whether we like it or not.”
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